tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38104090442790490722024-02-19T06:48:34.959+00:00Corrado Iorizzo - MindDumpcorrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-6287873098194880792017-08-31T21:20:00.002+01:002017-08-31T21:20:53.371+01:00Ciao!
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Today has been my last day in Atos Consulting after 7 wonderful
years with Cambridge Technology Partners first and Atos later. Though<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sad to leave the fantastic people and
teams in Atos, I am incredibly excited to be bring my passion, energy for this
new journey out of consulting business, joining a customer and I'm eager to
learn new things from a radically different perspective.</div>
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I can say that this has been the best professional but also personal
experience enriched by the birth of my son that contributed to look and
approach at the things in a different way.</div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; margin: 0in;">
<span lang="en-GB">All of this was possible because of the great management team in
Atos CH who's continuously giving trust to people and fostering us to share
innovation and ideas</span><span lang="en-US"> with customers and partners</span></div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; margin: 0in;">
It has
been both an honor and a personal privilege being here and sharing all these
adventures with my ex colleagues and now friends, my customers and business
partners (a big thanks to all the Microsoft folks, Gigya and Dell). We trusted
each other and this has been the basis of a long list of successes based on
pure innovation and value.</div>
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An high
five to all the members of Atos Scientific Community. Being part of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it gave me the opportunity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to listen, learn and share ideas. That was
undoubtedly the best of my Atos time! Never seen such high concentration of
talent and brain power anywhere else! Thank you Hubert Tardieu for having
accepted me and Ana Juan Ferrer for the terrific passion you bring in the track
I had the honor to serve.</div>
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<span lang="en-US">I can only say THANK YOU and w</span><span lang="en-GB">ishing all of
you good luck and best for your own adventures</span><span lang="en-US">.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-51174749322844226312011-11-02T22:14:00.001+00:002011-11-02T22:14:25.987+00:00My TechDays 2011 Bern slide deck<p>I attended a great TechDays event in Bern and I also had the great opportunity to take a talk.</p> <p>The Recording of my session is available <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/TechDays-11-Bern/TechDays-11-Bern-Using-TFS-Eventing-Services-to-integrate-TFS-2010-with-external-EPM-and-Ticketing-p">here</a>.</p> <p><iframe style="width: 512px; height: 288px" src="http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/TechDays-11-Bern/TechDays-11-Bern-Using-TFS-Eventing-Services-to-integrate-TFS-2010-with-external-EPM-and-Ticketing-p/player?w=512&h=288" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p> <p>The slide deck, as usual, can be download from by skydrive space <a href="https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=9a2730e573579f61&resid=9A2730E573579F61!209">here</a>.</p> <p>I also recall that my friend and colleague <a href="http://www.soulier.ch/">Benjamin Soulier</a> had 2 talks. Here the links too:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/TechDays-11-Bern/TechDays-11-Bern-Whats-new-in-Windows-Azure">TechDays 11 Bern - What´s new in Windows Azure</a></li> <li><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/TechDays-11-Switzerland/TechDays-11-Les-nouveauts-de-Windows-Azure">TechDays 11 Geneva - Les nouveautés de Windows Azure</a></li> </ul> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-3708623157508853702011-10-13T20:31:00.001+01:002011-10-13T20:33:23.156+01:00ISACA Event–Cambridge Technology Partners<p> I just did with my great friend <a href="http://www.soulier.ch/">Benjamin</a> a demo on Amazon EC2, Azure and O365 at the <a href="http://www.amiando.com/ISACA_Oct13.html;jsessionid=208DD2FCE59B2D2EF13A0219A206A4CB.web04?page=587536">ISACA meeting</a> sponsored by CTP.</p> <p>The slide we used are available on my skydrive space <a href="https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=9a2730e573579f61&resid=9A2730E573579F61!209">here</a>.</p> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-8724626782176179912011-10-09T18:44:00.001+01:002011-10-09T18:44:44.280+01:00Partner of the Year<p>I am very pleased to announce that <b><a href="http://www.ctp-consulting.com/">Cambridge</a> is the 2011 Microsoft Partner of Year </b>in the category <b><i>Future of Productivity</i></b>.</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-7E8D7riM_Ik/TpHdiTudkOI/AAAAAAAAADY/4vwLsyIdvrw/s1600-h/clip_image002%25255B3%25255D.gif"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="clip_image002" border="0" alt="clip_image002" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-uD5n57PyFM0/TpHdizqIW-I/AAAAAAAAADc/op5G3G-ka6k/clip_image002_thumb.gif?imgmax=800" width="246" height="72" /></a></p> <p>The award is in recognition of the outstanding work that has been done in Switzerland , in the delivery of <b>Portal and Collaboration projects</b> on top of <b>Microsoft SharePoint</b>.  </p> <p>In particular Microsoft has rewarded the “<b>SharePoint Business Accelerators”</b> for <i>Enterprise Social Collaboration</i> as most innovative and leading edge solution of the year.</p> <p>Congratulations to the delivery team (Alan, Charles, Bastienne, Fabrizio, Benjamin)  that make this possible!</p> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-67383194529675545612011-10-05T21:18:00.001+01:002011-10-05T21:18:28.078+01:00TechDays 2011–Bern<p>The 21st October I’m more than glad to have the opportunity to run a session at the Switzerland Techdays in Bern about the customization of TFS (through plugin and eventing service) to allow the integration with external platforms (ticketing systems or ppm tools).</p> <p>More details on the event agenda here: <a title="http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/fr/techdays/agenda.aspx" href="http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/fr/techdays/agenda.aspx">http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/fr/techdays/agenda.aspx</a></p> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-82932128883048697342011-09-26T17:07:00.001+01:002011-09-26T17:51:58.122+01:00Geneva SoftShake and other local events<p>Next week in Geneva it will take place the second edition of the <a href="http://soft-shake.ch/en/">Soft-Shake</a> conference that I strongly recommend (…even though if I cannot attend since I’ll be in Anaheim for the <a href="http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx">SharePoint Conference</a>).</p> <p>We have 2 speeches here:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.soulier.ch/?lang=en">Ben</a>, our Azure MVP, just back from the <a href="http://www.buildwindows.com/">Build</a> is presenting the latest features of <a href="http://soft-shake.ch/en/conference/sessions.html?key=azure">Azure</a>; </li> <li><a href="http://soft-shake.ch/conference/speakers/2011/09/23/sandro-caliz.html">Sandro</a> and <a href="http://soft-shake.ch/conference/speakers/2011/09/23/singaravelan-thangavelu.html">Velan</a> are going to speak <a href="http://soft-shake.ch/en/conference/sessions.html?key=agilealmforcloud">of a real case study of ALM applied to an Azure project</a> and, probably for the first time in Switzerland, they will present the new <a href="https://tfspreview.com/">TFS Online</a> in their session </li> </ul> <p>SoftShake is not the only upcoming event, since we’ve many initiatives around the cloud.</p> <p>I’ll be directly involved in this ISACA <a href="http://www.amiando.com/ISACA_Oct13.html">session</a> on <strong>Cloud computing and Swiss Market Trends</strong> where I will do with Ben a kind of Jam session on IaaS and PaaS.</p> <p>Below the agenda:</p> <p><u><strong>Agenda</strong></u> <br />18:00 Welcome and Greets <br />18:30 Swiss Market Trends in Cloud computing - Anees Qureshi, CTP Nyon <br />18: 50 Understanding the cloud computing better – Issues, Threats and solutions, with real life case analysis on various offerings <br />- Corrado Iorizzo, Senior Architect / Benjamin Soulier, Manager, CTP Nyon <br />19:50 Q and A Session <br />20:05 Networking Apero</p> <p><u><strong>Location: </strong></u></p> <p>Cambridge Technology Partners, Chemin de Precossy 27, Nyon. </p> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-11758435835134856202011-09-21T18:12:00.001+01:002011-09-21T18:12:53.199+01:00TFS 2010 Web Access - Project Collections don’t showed<p>This morning I’ve lost a couple of hours with an enterprise customer with a very annoying problem.</p> <ul> <li>We’re using different <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd236915.aspx">Project Collections</a> to segregate permission and delegate administrations among different countries/departments/sand-boxed environments;</li> <li>Since a couple of days, when I add a new <strong>Project Collection</strong>, it doesn’t showed on the <strong>Project Selection</strong> window of <strong>TFS Web Access</strong></li> </ul> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-KXfLpZ1H6kY/TnobDESsrxI/AAAAAAAAADI/NGUnOsAx7tQ/s1600-h/image%25255B15%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-EIyk3oaJbf0/TnobDnNgAgI/AAAAAAAAADM/QQtX0ERX4xE/image_thumb%25255B5%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="392" height="355" /></a></p> <ul> <li>Indeed Visual Studio 2010 worked perfectly, showing all the expected <strong>Project Collections</strong> accordingly to the granted permissions.</li> <li>After having checked (and forced) all TFS permissions, logs and web-configs what I did had just forcing an option on <strong>TFS Web Access</strong> <strong>web.config</strong></li> </ul> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-3Nm0qfymJLQ/TnobEbHNITI/AAAAAAAAADQ/qOfe6_r7_uo/s1600-h/image%25255B20%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-LBweEgW45JQ/TnobFMtO_jI/AAAAAAAAADU/4CUt5VhW_ug/image_thumb%25255B8%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="506" height="261" /></a></p> <ul> <li>I had to change the following option:</li> </ul> <blockquote> <div style="border-bottom: silver 1px solid; text-align: left; border-left: silver 1px solid; padding-bottom: 4px; line-height: 12pt; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding-left: 4px; width: 97.5%; padding-right: 4px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monospace; direction: ltr; max-height: 200px; font-size: 8pt; overflow: auto; border-top: silver 1px solid; cursor: text; border-right: silver 1px solid; padding-top: 4px" id="codeSnippetWrapper"> <div style="border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; background-color: #f4f4f4; border-left-style: none; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; border-right-style: none; font-size: 8pt; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px" id="codeSnippet"> <pre style="border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; background-color: white; margin: 0em; border-left-style: none; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; border-right-style: none; font-size: 8pt; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px"><span style="color: #606060" id="lnum1"> 1:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span>tfServers<span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre><br /><!--CRLF--><br /><br /> <pre style="border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; border-left-style: none; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; border-right-style: none; font-size: 8pt; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px"><span style="color: #606060" id="lnum2"> 2:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span>!-- <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span>add name="http://server:8080" /<span style="color: #0000ff">></span> </pre><br /><!--CRLF--><br /><br /> <pre style="border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; background-color: white; margin: 0em; border-left-style: none; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; border-right-style: none; font-size: 8pt; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px"><span style="color: #606060" id="lnum3"> 3:</span> --<span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre><br /><!--CRLF--><br /><br /> <pre style="border-bottom-style: none; text-align: left; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 12pt; background-color: #f4f4f4; margin: 0em; border-left-style: none; padding-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-right: 0px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monospace; direction: ltr; border-top-style: none; color: black; border-right-style: none; font-size: 8pt; overflow: visible; padding-top: 0px"><span style="color: #606060" id="lnum4"> 4:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span>/tfServers<span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre><br /><!--CRLF--></div><br /> </div><br /></blockquote><br /><br /><ul><br /> <li>First I removed the comment, forcing to connect to the TFS server DNS URL (<a href="http://tfs.mycompany.com/tfs">http://tfs.mycompany.com/tfs</a>)</li><br /><br /> <li>This wasn’t working too so I forced Web Access to connect to a specific <strong>Project Collection URI </strong>(<a href="http://tfs.mycompany.com/tfs/oneofmyprojectcollection">http://tfs.mycompany.com/tfs/oneofmyprojectcollection</a>) and unexpectedly this worked!</li><br /><br /> <ul><br /> <li>I don’t know why but almost probably specifying a project collection uri force TFS to enumerate the root collection.</li><br /> </ul><br /><br /> <li>I’d like to remember that this option is used when you need to decouple TFS Web Access from TFS Application Tier, splitting the module on two different servers.</li><br /></ul> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-17917258184007243112011-09-21T17:38:00.001+01:002011-09-21T17:38:28.140+01:00Balsamiq Templates Collection<p><a href="http://balsamiq.com/">Balsamiq</a> is an excellent tool that I use to design <strong>application storyboards, mockups</strong> and <strong>functional specs, and </strong>I’ve to admit that since I’ve discovered it, I prefer it rather than <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/sketchflow_overview.aspx">Microsoft SketchFlow</a>. It’s also interesting the company behind the product and the philosophy of the <a href="http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2011/03/live-conversation-with-peldi-founder-or-balsamiq-on-his-talk-do-worry-be-happy.html">founder</a> (…one of the few italian guys running a startup).</p> <p>Anyway for whom is working with Balsamiq I’m landed on a must-link site providing for free additional templates that can be used to enrich the Balsamiq library to support different sketch style (as example SharePoint 2010 and iPad). Take a look to: <a title="http://mockupstogo.net/" href="http://mockupstogo.net/">http://mockupstogo.net/</a></p> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-55191299474869832932011-09-14T10:29:00.001+01:002011-09-14T10:30:47.722+01:00Azure UG Switzerland – 23.09.2011<p>By enabling you to build, host and scale your applications in the Cloud, Windows Azure is the unifying factor coming for the enterprise.</p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-OalK2O5FwHc/TnB0DSHHn8I/AAAAAAAAADA/T5JLKSj5kUc/s1600-h/clip_image001%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="clip_image001" border="0" alt="clip_image001" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-H17lMJBojjw/TnB0DxTuQMI/AAAAAAAAADE/8gEDyP6HV4w/clip_image001_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="309" height="187" /></a></p> <p>If you missed the opportunity to attend the Build Conference in Anaheim, California, please joint us on Friday September 23rd, 9 to 12 AM, for a discovery tour of all the latest features and capabilities of the Microsoft Cloud Platform, a tour presented by Switzerland’s first <a href="https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=C7FB52A8-83A7-4E21-A0EA-A28AC467F15D">Windows Azure MVP</a> <strong>Benjamin Soulier</strong>.</p> <p>Then you will hear about a real life experience presented by Mr. Adam Jones of The Global Fund.</p> <p><b>Registration</b>:</p> <p>Attendance is free, kindly register at:</p> <p><a href="http://www.azureusergroup.ch/">http://www.azureusergroup.ch/</a></p> <p><b>Location</b>:</p> <p>Chemin de Précossy 27</p> <p>Cambridge Technology Partners Office</p> <p>1260 Nyon</p> <p><b>Schedule</b>:</p> <p>Date: Friday September 23<sup>rd</sup> 2011</p> <p>Time: 9AM to 12AM</p> <p><b>Agenda</b>:</p> <p>09:00-09:30: Breakfast,</p> <p>09:30-10:15: Session: Benjamin Soulier - <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:293622a6-e2e0-4f07-929a-29dabf0dd8eb" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Azure+UG" rel="tag">Azure UG</a></div> All about new the features coming to Azure</p> <p>10:15-10:30: Break</p> <p>10:30-11:15: Session: A customer’s voice: Adam Jones from The Global Fund</p> <p>11:15-12:00: Open discussion</p> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-13722409874058060662011-08-30T11:29:00.001+01:002011-08-30T11:29:31.066+01:00SharePoint 2010 – NLB vs Hardware Load Balancer<p>In the last period, many times I was involved in discussions with customers regarding the adoption of the out-of-the-box <u>Windows Server NLB</u> (Network Load Balancer) or <u>dedicated hardware solution</u> (Cisco, F5, Coyote, etc.)</p> <p>I’ve tried to summarize my mental pattern about this argument, in the table below (…well, I censored Duff & Donuts from my thoughts):</p> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="850"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="133"> </td> <td valign="top" width="328"> <p align="center"><strong><font color="#00ff00">PROS</font></strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="387"> <p align="center"><strong><font color="#ff0000">CONS</font></strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="133"> <p align="center"><strong>NLB</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="328"> <ul> <li>It’s <u>cheaper</u> (already available as part of <u>Windows Server</u> stack).</li> <li><u>Rapid</u> <u>deployment</u> and <u>adoption:</u></li> <ul> <li>SharePoint team doesn’t need to rely on the infrastructure team for the configuration;</li> <li>No real technical expertise needed;<!--EndFragment--></li> </ul> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="387"> <ul> <li><u>NLB works at socket level</u> (TCP/UDP) and doesn’t provide any specific feature or optimization for <u>http/https.</u></li> <li>A dedicated NIC (network card) is strongly recommended.</li> <li><u>Governance</u> and <u>Operations</u> of NLB cluster could be tricky:</li> <ul> <li>more people must be made aware of NLB configurations</li> </ul> <li><u>Configuration could be tricky</u> in presence of multicast traffic.</li> <li><u>No caching capability</u> is provided:</li> <ul> <li>for http/https is expected to rely on Microsoft <u>ISA</u> or <u>IAG</u>;</li> </ul> <li><u>No certificate management:</u></li> <ul> <li>Certificate must be individually managed in IIS;</li> <li>Some Governance is needed;</li> </ul> <li><u>No compression capability:</u></li> <ul> <li>for http/https is expected to rely on IIS 7.x</li> </ul> <li>Technology is …antique, well not really an issue but NLB was created to balance COM+ application with NT4/OptionPack </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="133"> <p align="center"><strong>Hardware Load Balancer</strong></p> </td> <td valign="top" width="328"> <ul> <li><u>Improved Performance</u>, https traffic is managed at <u>hardware level</u>;</li> <li><u>Low latency</u> during the switching in case of High-Availability configuration.</li> <li><u>SSL and HTTPS configuration is managed internally,</u> making it transparent to IIS/SharePoint configuration.</li> <li><u>Caching capabilities</u> if needed (don’t abuse of this).</li> <li>High-Availability generally supports dependency rules on how to route packets in case of unavailability of specific servers/application tiers.</li> <li><u>Support of protocol specific rules</u> (http, https, etc.)</li> <li><u>Support of Security Rules</u>;</li> <li><u>Technical Agnosticism</u>, the tools can be used to balance Windows, Linux, Web Server, sockets, email servers.</li> <li><u>Governance</u> in the sense that there is a centralized point of management for all the needs regarding balancing, high-availability, security etc. </li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="387"> <ul> <li><u>Expensive</u>, for sure it something to be acquired and identifying the best solution won’t be easy ‘cause the huge amount of options in the market. </li> <li>Learning Curve </li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p><strong>Rules of Thumb</strong></p> <ul> <li>Use NLB if <u>hardware load balancer is not available</u>  and there are no plans on that (polite way to say <u>no budget</u>); </li> <li>In the <u>Intranet</u>, if <u>reverse proxy</u> isn’t available (sometimes the hardware load balancer is available only for Internet traffic); </li> <li>As <u>Tactical Solution</u> (as example for running stress test on your new project in a stage environment if the hardware solution is not available or cannot be used); </li> <li>We can definitely state that a <u>strategic solution must rely on hardware load balancer</u>, a <u>tactical solution could rely on a software NLB</u>. </li> </ul> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-89733775289687319722011-03-09T17:36:00.000+00:002011-03-09T17:50:57.311+00:00SharePoint Governance, ITIL and MOF 4.0<p>In these times I’m working for different customers in defining some models of SharePoint Governance modeling processes, planning strategies and defining maturity models in IT organizations to support a SharePoint Service Line being able to manage heterogeneous organization business departments:</p> <p><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Untitled" border="0" alt="Untitled" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_J9FmXOlU3a8/TXe9HvqsTRI/AAAAAAAAABo/Le_JKxDwQCc/Untitled%5B10%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="345" height="261" /></p> <p>I’ve to say that it’s a very interesting and quite challenging topic and I’m strongly leveraging the experience I’ve done in the last years where I’ve used ITIL v3 to support IT organizations in adopting an ALM strategy based on Team Foundation Server.</p> <p>Here my personal quick annotation of useful resources regarding Services Frameworks.</p> <p><a title="http://en.it-processmaps.com/" href="http://en.it-processmaps.com/">Process-Map</a></p> <p><a title="http://www.itil.org/en/vomkennen/itil/index.php" href="http://www.itil.org/en/vomkennen/itil/index.php">ITIL.org</a></p> <p><a href="http://blogs.technet.com/mof/archive/2008/05/02/announcing-the-release-of-microsoft-operations-framework-4-0-and-the-new-mof-online-forums.aspx">MOF Team Blog Announcement</a></p> <p><a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc506049.aspx">MOF IT Library</a></p> <p><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=116390">Get the Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0</a></p> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-3806488294914846342011-01-25T10:53:00.001+00:002011-01-25T10:53:03.242+00:00Azure User Group Suisse – Moved to 16th February 2011<div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2932ea90-638b-4ac1-b79a-150a4c699037" class="class">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Azure" rel="tag">Azure</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Cloud" rel="tag">Cloud</a></div> <p>Hi everyone, I’m very proud to re-announce the first <strong>Azure User Group Suisse Meeting</strong> that will be in held in Nyon on 16.02.2011 (I know it was originally planned for the 02 Feb), thanks to <a href="http://www.ctp.com/">Cambridge Technology Partners</a> that will provide the conference room and the technical infrastructure to run the meeting.</p> <p>The <u>Group Leader</u> is my dear friend and great speaker <a href="http://www.soulier.ch/">Benjamin Soulier</a> and we’ve decided to run this initiative together to have the opportunity to share ideas and experience for a technology we’re sure is going to drive the IT projects in the incoming years.</p> <p>The idea is to import in Suisse the <u>User Groups UK </u>formula where communities and groups are largely spreaded with some common features:</p> <ul> <li>Contents and Topics are directly chosen by group members; </li> <li>Live events every 2-3 months in off-work hours (18,00-20,00) </li> <ul> <li>2 Sessions of 1 Hours </li> <li>Final drink with networking and free sharing-experience </li> </ul> </ul> <p>More information <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=176700249033261">here</a></p> <p><strong>Event Manifesto</strong></p> <p>This year has been announced by numerous IT analysts as the year of Cloud Computing. <br />As a first initiative around Microsoft cloud technologies, you are invited to discover and get up to date with the next IT revolution. <br />The event is organized with the support of Cambridge Technology Partners that provides the conference room and the tec...hnical infrastructure to run the meeting and will consist of two great sessions, some networking and a final apero’. <br /></p> <p><strong>Session 1 – Emmanuel Mesas - from Microsoft <br /></strong>We’re honored of having Microsoft with us that will take the first session about the cloud proposal and Microsoft vision. <br /></p> <p><strong>Session 2 – Benjamin Soulier - A Lap Around Azure</strong> <br />This session will explain all what you need to start building your applications in the cloud. <br />What you need to know to start your projects in the cloud in an effective way. <br />The Goal of this session is understanding how to write code, test it locally & deploy and maintain your application in the Cloud</p> <p><strong>Call To Action:</strong></p> <p>I’m looking to speakers and Topics for the next events and obviously I am not necessarily looking for seasoned speakers. In fact the value that group bring to all of you is that you are part of community and if you want to share a good story to tell about real world implementation you can do that!</p> <p>Why should you speak at Meetings:</p> <ul> <li>To practice your public speaking abilities in a friendly environment </li> <li>To promote your name and measure your technical skills </li> <li>To have the opportunity to share your experiences for everyone benefits and viceversa </li> </ul> <p>If you’re interested, please write to me: corrado.iorizzo [a--t] yahoo.co.uk or drop a comment on this blog.</p> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-79666872833486334112010-12-10T09:35:00.001+00:002010-12-10T09:35:51.261+00:00ALM Day 2011 – Team Foundation Server and ITIL to support IT processes<p>I’m very proud of being invited by Microsoft Switzerland to speak at the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/alm/agenda.aspx">ALM Day 2011</a> on 27 January 2011 in Zurich about our experience on the implementation of IT business processes on the top of Team Foundation Server.</p> <p>It this meeting I’m honored of the presence of <a href="http://ch.linkedin.com/pub/luis-marcos/0/6ab/65b ">Luis Marcos</a> that gave me the opportunity to work together on the automation of some delivery processes in <a href="http://www.jti.com">JT International</a> and we co-present the session.</p> <p>I can also announce that <a href="http://www.ctp.com">Cambridge Technology Partners</a>, is organizing another ALM Day that will be held in Suisse Romande most probably in march.</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d8bcfe79-1bdd-4823-b806-af7e11dbde63" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ALM" rel="tag">ALM</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/TFS" rel="tag">TFS</a></div> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-52535871499939703962010-12-10T08:39:00.001+00:002010-12-14T15:29:49.446+00:00Azure User Group Suisse – 02.02.2011 Call for User Groups Sessions<div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2932ea90-638b-4ac1-b79a-150a4c699037" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Azure" rel="tag">Azure</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Cloud" rel="tag">Cloud</a></div> <p>Hi everyone, I’m very proud to announce the first <strong>Azure User Group Suisse Meeting</strong> that will be in held in Nyon on 02.02.2011, thanks to <a href="http://www.ctp.com/">Cambridge Technology Partners</a> that will provide the conference room and the technical infrastructure to run the meeting.</p> <p>The <u>Group Leader</u> is my dear friend and great speaker <a href="http://www.soulier.ch/">Benjamin Soulier</a> and we’ve decided to run this initiative together to have the opportunity to share ideas and experience for a technology we’re sure is going to drive the IT projects in the incoming years.</p> <p>The idea is to import in Suisse the <u>User Groups UK </u>formula where communities and groups are largely spreaded and have some common features:</p> <ul> <li>Contents and Topics are directly chosen by group members; </li> <li>Live events every 2-3 months in off-work hours (17,30-20,00) <ul> <li>2 Sessions of 1 Hours </li> <li>Final drink with networking and free sharing-experience </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Call To Action:</strong></p> <p>I’m looking to speakers and Topics for the first events and obviously I am not necessarily looking for seasoned speakers. In fact the value that group bring to all of you is that you are part of community and if you want to share a good story to tell about real world implementation you can do that!</p> <p>Why should you speak at Meetings:</p> <ul> <li>To practice your public speaking abilities in a friendly environment </li> <li>To promote your name and measure your technical skills </li> <li>To have the opportunity to share your experiences for everyone benefits and viceversa </li> </ul> <p>If you’re interested, please write to me: corrado.iorizzo [a--t] yahoo.co.uk or drop a comment on this blog.</p> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-14186105545229186512010-12-08T09:12:00.001+00:002010-12-08T09:12:39.134+00:00VS/TFS – A lot of improvements<div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ef588de4-376d-434e-a0fd-d15edb42699c" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Visual+Studio" rel="tag">Visual Studio</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/TFS" rel="tag">TFS</a></div> <p>In these days a lot of updates and news around Visual Studio and TFS are coming out by MS and I’d like to fix-up some useful links and features:</p> <p><u><strong>VS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta (Source: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2010/12/07/vs-tfs-2010-sp1-beta-has-released.aspx">bharry’s WebLog</a>)</strong></u></p> <ul> <li>Released on 09.12.2010 it’s a Beta that appears to be very reliable and it’s also licensed to run on production servers. In terms of functionalities released it doesn’t appear to be huge, but technically it resolves many internal issues (memory leaks and performance) and build automation should be very reliable now. </li> <li><strong>Download links:</strong> <ul> <li><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=207144">.NET Framework 4 Update Beta</a> – otherwise know as .NET Framework 4 KB2162169 – BETA </li> <li><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=207130">VS 2010 SP1 Beta</a> (Includes the .NET Framework 4 update) </li> <li><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=207131">TFS 2010 SP1 Beta</a> (Includes the .NET Framework 4 update) </li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Functionalities</strong> <ul> <li><strong>Local help viewer – </strong>…honestly I don’t care </li> <li><strong>Silverlight 4 tools</strong> - The Silverlight 4 tools are now included along with Silverlight 3 support. </li> <li><strong>Unit Testing on .NET 3.5</strong> - In VS 2010, you can only run unit tests against .NET 4.0 and must rely on Framework compatibility to trust that your app will actually work if deployed on .NET 3.5. </li> <li><strong>Intellitrace for 64-bit and Sharepoint</strong> – Intellitrace – Anyway is still missing the Silverlight and unmanaged C++ </li> <li><strong>Performance Wizard for Silverlight</strong> – Profile for SilverLight. I still hadn’t the time to test for it. </li> <li><strong>VB Compiler runtime switch (/vbruntime)</strong> – Key VB runtime components can be included as references in your application, making it easier for you to target new platforms as they are released. </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong><u>Visual Studio Feature Pack 2 (Source: </u><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/it-IT/library/gg269474.aspx"><u>MSDN</u></a><u>)</u></strong></p> <ul> <li>It was announced during the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/CTP-Excellence/139256519458756">Inner Circle Partners Summit</a> on November in Antwerpen and released on 15.11.2010 </li> <li>Licensed to VS Ultimate with MSDN, VS Premium with MSDN or VS Test Professional with MSDN </li> <li>It’s a cumulative pack so it INCLUDES the <strong>Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack (aka Feature Pack 1)</strong> </li> <li><strong>Download links:</strong> <ul> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ff655021.aspx">MSDN Visual Studio 2010 Features Pack</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Functionalities</strong> <ul> <li><strong>Testing features:</strong> <ul> <li><strong><font color="#008000">Important:</font></strong> Use <strong>Microsoft Test Manager</strong> to capture and playback action recordings for Silverlight 4 applications. </li> <li>Use action recordings to fast forward through manual tests that need to support <strong>Mozilla Firefox 3.5</strong> and <strong>3.6</strong>. </li> <li>Available to <strong>Visual Studio 2010 Premium</strong> or <strong>Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate</strong>) <ul> <li><strong><font color="#008000">Important:</font></strong> Create <strong>Coded UI tests for Silverlight 4</strong> applications </li> <li>Edit <strong>coded UI tests using a graphical editor</strong> </li> <li><strong><font color="#008000">Important:</font></strong> Run <strong>coded UI tests</strong> for web applications using <strong>Mozilla Firefox 3.5</strong> and <strong>3.6</strong> </li> <li></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Code visualization and modeling features(requires Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate):</strong> <ul> <li><strong><font color="#008000">Important:</font></strong> Use the Generate Code command to generate skeleton code from elements on UML class diagrams. You can use the default transformations, or you can write custom transformations to translate UML types into code. </li> <li>Create UML class diagrams from existing code. </li> <li><strong><font color="#008000">Important:</font></strong>Explore the organization and relationships in C, C++, and ASP.NET projects by generating dependency graphs. </li> <li><strong><font color="#008000">Important:</font></strong>Import elements from UML sequence diagrams, class diagrams, and use case diagrams as XMI 2.1 files that are exported from other modeling tools. </li> <li>Create links and view links from work items to model elements. </li> <li>Create layer diagrams from C or C++ code and validate dependencies. </li> <li>Write code to modify layer diagrams and to validate code against layer diagrams. </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p></p> <p><strong><u>TFS and Project Server Integration in Beta (Source: </u><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/project/archive/2010/12/07/announcing-visual-studio-team-foundation-server-2010-and-project-server-integration-feature-pack-beta.aspx"><u>Microsoft Project 2010 Blog</u></a><u>)</u></strong></p> <ul> <li>This is an hot topic in today IT organization because one of emerging need is <strong>traceability</strong> where TFS is great, and companies needs to correlate <strong>Project Portfolio Management</strong> solutions with <strong>Software Construction</strong> and <strong>QA processes</strong> and also to the <strong>Operations</strong> landscape.</li> <li>The distribution of the integration will be done as a <strong>Feature Pack </strong>that is available ONLY to <strong>Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate</strong></li> <li>The integration can be downloaded only from <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=207267">MSDN download center</a> (available to MSDN subscribers), access it and then look at:</li> <ul> <li>Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack Beta (x86) - (English) </li> <li>Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack Beta (x64) - (English) </li> </ul> <li>The installation requires <strong>TFS 2010 SP1 Beta </strong>to be installed on the affected TFS Server.</li> <li><strong>Visual Studio SP1 Beta</strong> need to be installed on the clients that will leverage these integrations functionalities (I expect the Team Leaders only machines)</li> <li>The <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=207267">Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack</a> must be installed on Project Server:</li> <ul> <li>It supports <strong>Project Server 2007</strong> and <strong>2010</strong> too</li> </ul> <li><strong>Functionalities</strong></li> <ul> <li>In terms of the functionalities supported I’ll dedicate a Post later on this topic but I’ve to say that I’ve some concern and there is room for improvements.</li> <li>I don’t like the resource mapping from TFS to Project Server (but I need to perform some more test).</li> <li>There are some constraints and assumptions regarding the Work-Items that you want to keep aligned with Project Server that you need to consider when you model and implements your ALM business processes </li> <li></li> </ul> </ul> corrado.iorizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07998131168284597328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-77374090252115712452010-05-13T17:20:00.001+01:002010-05-13T17:20:01.869+01:00RIA Services – Under the hood<p>Personal reminder: I’ve found these couple of posts very useful:</p> <p><strong>WCF & RIA</strong></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/saurabh/archive/2009/11/23/understanding-the-wcf-in-wcf-ria-services.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/saurabh/archive/2009/11/23/understanding-the-wcf-in-wcf-ria-services.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/saurabh/archive/2009/11/23/understanding-the-wcf-in-wcf-ria-services.aspx</a></p> <p><strong>RIA Endpoints:</strong></p> <p><a title="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2010/05/05/silverlight-and-wcf-ria-services-2-services.aspx" href="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2010/05/05/silverlight-and-wcf-ria-services-2-services.aspx">http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2010/05/05/silverlight-and-wcf-ria-services-2-services.aspx</a></p> <p><strong>Deployment:</strong></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/saurabh/archive/2010/03/16/ria-services-application-deployment.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/saurabh/archive/2010/03/16/ria-services-application-deployment.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/saurabh/archive/2010/03/16/ria-services-application-deployment.aspx</a></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-89943562646541045742010-04-15T22:10:00.001+01:002010-04-15T22:10:47.024+01:00TIQ won a Microsoft Inner Circle @ Western Europe Partner Summit in Rome<p>It was 6 month ago but I’ve taken the pics only yesterday (…thanks to Microsoft mktg :-D )</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe-EHoklzoSPL5GT_Uf72XTf8ANh4LBi_Z279p6aoNlobUarLGwongFwNGxwqrRnpfONvTVIyrn3ITU51w5Jyivo_S-MKYa9Wg0GlOvBmWatKOOf8A4MGZ1pMYEpcT5Fgu8DsvJ1GCaE5r/s1600-h/awardwinner_TiQ_IT%5B4%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="awardwinner_TiQ_IT" border="0" alt="awardwinner_TiQ_IT" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqi4vtxuJQFqtRP4kHpgiLbVtxAXDIAmm1sfPyXTOhUQNICaJel6aZzkNbVGyjjCy6tHCET42VYlHHih4AT-vEPe9JGkvnwlnYtxBqBD73IjJ6K8kN6qFHLDdYcjlhaAwlD_dd7-vYrZ0/?imgmax=800" width="515" height="427" /></a> </p> <p>I’m on the left and obviously as you can see from my formal dress the award has been totally unexpected…</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-37343774356467437152010-04-15T22:05:00.001+01:002010-04-15T22:05:11.923+01:00.Net 4 & Parallel-Programming: Quick Start<p>Ok, you’ve to think to your code and data structure in a different way to leverage multi-cores processor at their best, but with VS 2010 and .Net 4.0 it’s very easy to begin the development of concurrent algorithms and procedures:</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjepgxc7EOt78pFqHIxpJa2KmxbwAKR4TaabG0jkxO8BRIlLCp_-BS_hITZHWV7AgsOdecMvWHP0fuHoBWTjXAk418Z-MJSFawbF6_8p4ujcMnhEoybFRLBv3OkB2I1xSNLk8skooZQKQLT/s1600-h/image%5B4%5D.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibxK09J1Z_iw2wLA0HsVcUyBpqbwHqNfdDNmiHkrXyuhwNDtVroAV4sdKRHGgGoyNT0Eu7zRgJUjI2Vh7Q9YvR09BUyngNigGLWh4l1UIKzZDegPjOggBIiB3BT59XXVY2H2dAjOqXrNCF/?imgmax=800" width="543" height="419" /></a> </p> <p></p> <p>Remember that:</p> <ul> <li>Always think to synchronization of task. Having concurrency features doesn’t mean that you’ve to start parallel processing indiscriminately!</li> <li>You cannot parallelize DB operations (well you can if you use a connection for each task, better on different tables and pay attention to DB locking);</li> <li>If you share data structures between the concurrent tasks protected them with lock(mydatastructure( if you’ve to update or change them (for example a Dictionary<>).</li> </ul> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-11125503301314743262009-11-17T18:47:00.001+00:002009-11-17T18:47:46.189+00:00Sharepoint 2007 - “Cannot install the package” during service pack installation<p>Install Sharepoint 2007 SP2 on a test server I ran into this problem. No log, no additional info.</p> <p>The work around I found was:</p> <ul> <li>Run <em>officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x86-fullfile-en-us /extract:c:\mytempdir </em></li> <li>In this way I’ve got all the Sharepoint SP2 patches available in a temp directory </li> <li>I’ve installed manually the available patches </li> <li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh549pXgHDBgcjimf2MrTX9f723UjJ1e3Rzz4xaQlzndtZ6pOFzv_WgSfFMadztSZ2fCfXH6IZB5WbdLLKdgK80FcLIGUAQCqH7u1bIlWxwJAOmbJEXLRB6oYvP0k-sjKsqagEQd3SMtNR/s1600-h/image3.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCLPyiO0BSfPeDrEorxdoEfpJ1wKy3eO8jtM9hGSr2-aS4Jwa7p6ml2e3BzOkzEz0iO3NvC5gd-kxrxo_hEEseYXedMHEKfvpHFkpj7UZPgw6uz4yasUoMhCX8yKN55xGLOmDkdCy3UN7f/?imgmax=800" width="430" height="290" /></a> </li> <li>Now it seems that everything is right! </li> </ul> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1932f670-bdc2-42ba-9e35-ec9e6b37e677" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Sharepoint+2007" rel="tag">Sharepoint 2007</a></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-72852372538724726512009-11-16T22:28:00.001+00:002009-11-16T22:28:30.987+00:00Sharepoint 2010 Beta 2 Available<p>Ok, the time for the braves is arrived!</p> <p>Sharepoint 2010 is available to MSDN subscribers.</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQGLo6S8Rn-9RBwpcRZFbFmwWAeMo7dWEeZu13FjrzZ8gKqYM2LQAxbePnLSWKivW4_Msb7-NwpGSY42sgnTHnL59k8pVGuPN17Up9exH31YOLCgIj3P3bfRXUgUy-M1dbmUKcCvjkO_zZ/s1600-h/image%5B3%5D.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXKO-l9zW1FD6CqU15ZvIbcjMjG9NRhCAjVrg-xL-Whf1qUYvDe6nkUvlpZG0NyVR0hYoAReQkXG5WXFb9vUC6TJ50BwRzr-rvsAA4q_5zyg5Kw3rBAd4cVa8i3SMM3gqLKROqJ7L4gQ3j/?imgmax=800" width="510" height="320" /></a> </p> <p>Marco (my colleague owner og my account) please, go on with the new servers!</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a0af3968-1578-4672-ba21-5e960a5d5a63" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Sharepoint+2010" rel="tag">Sharepoint 2010</a></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-13033203841490844032009-11-11T22:52:00.001+00:002009-11-11T22:53:38.858+00:00Microsoft ALM Day – Rome and Milan<p>The last week I had the opportunity to speak at the second edition of <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/italy/alm/eventi/almday/index.aspx">Microsoft ALM Day</a> (Application Lifecycle Management) the 5th in Rome and the 6th in Milan. <a href="http://www.tiq-industrial.co.uk/Speech%20%20Conferences/MS%20ALM%20Day%20-%20Un%20framework%20metodologico%20per%20lo%20sviluppo%20di%20sistemi%20per%20l’ottimizzazione%20di%20processi.ppsx">Here</a> my presentation.</p> <p>I love these events because I always to meet great people (dr. Ivar Jacobson during the previous edition, <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/">Brian Harry</a> in Rome and <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2008/10/27/visual-studio-2010-ctp-vpc-dealing-with-activation-messages.aspx">Brian Keller</a>).</p> <p><a href="http://www.geniodelmale.info/images/www_geniodelmale_info/WindowsLiveWriter/QualchefotodellatapparomanadellALMDay_AC45/DSCN2192.jpg"><img title="DSCN2192" border="0" alt="DSCN2192" src="http://www.geniodelmale.info/images/www_geniodelmale_info/WindowsLiveWriter/QualchefotodellatapparomanadellALMDay_AC45/DSCN2192_thumb.jpg" width="378" height="285" /></a></p> <p>I also had to opportunity to speak and eat with great and BIG people. Thanks <a href="http://www.geniodelmale.info/">Lorenzo</a> for the <a href="http://www.geniodelmale.info/archive/2009/11/04/quando-dico-che-la-texas-egrave-per-ldquovegetarianirdquohellip.aspx">fillet</a>….</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:35878093-15f5-4591-8d2e-364a5224c6f6" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ALM" rel="tag">ALM</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/VisualStudio+2010" rel="tag">VisualStudio 2010</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Speech" rel="tag">Speech</a></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-6460619887093055382009-11-11T22:38:00.001+00:002009-11-11T22:38:33.495+00:00Visual Studio 2010<p>The previous week I attended to the <strong>Microsoft Inner Circle Partner Summit</strong> in Rome about <strong>Visual Studio</strong> and <strong>ALM</strong> (Application Lifecycle Management) topics.</p> <p>Brian Harry announced the availability of <strong>Visual Studio 2010</strong> for the Q1-2010, while the RC should be shipped for the end of the year.</p> <p>The only certain thing is the product launch that will be held on march 22nd, at this moment is also sure that the RTM will be made available a little bit earlier or a little bit later :-P</p> <p>The suite has been rebranded and the <strong>Team System</strong> name is gone on retirement (well officially the last Team System brand name will be the 22nd march)!</p> <p>There are going to be 3 main products:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Visual Studio 2010 Professional/MSDN</strong> (more or less is Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition) </li> <li><strong>Visual Studio 2010 Premium/MSDN</strong> </li> <li><strong>Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate/MSDN</strong> </li> </ul> <p>But the big stuff are on the supporting tools:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Visual Studio Test Elements 2010</strong> to create test cases and manages test execution (manually or partially automated);</li> <li><strong>Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010</strong> to integrate and automate the virtual machines management in the ALM;</li> <li><strong>Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 </strong>now installable on Windows 7/Vista, included with MSDN and also with the CAL!</li> </ul> <p>In the following pics the features stack of the different VS products:</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqdNO7fMB2uAlyD7Nj_G74rRfCvpV8fIz_Nxox1sRKMtcrMT-gejE9BtNI4y-JV_GOBhvZMeCO-d2V08wWd-fa8ghulY_dVuGfU-BTohg9DKag5iHpaXw-O78xBBu1F-mMxqGIO8TWlmhS/s1600-h/Products-Base%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="Products-Base" border="0" alt="Products-Base" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXb-W5UsNZ1-dTQ3JFfloW2UuNFkexFYGveEhuaqFO6fYOj09SrwpgaCXNLFlMU6iQkqGRsEJkwSc0dGk-Awx75OMKgYBhOfXPAIaeqy7lCT2QsrKFjTRNm6QfPlCi4j0MfQb71lmcu0A8/?imgmax=800" width="294" height="222" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzxCSHBIbEfq6xE5TV3YxZFwAJMcMgzNKr4jIPjNXUfCP9lt40v0HtkZlaoBZ54jg0wJJj0J-no4DLKMxSRawGPeXud1qQrlxJBYI_YzRrJdDv8UVsnm_2IvlHwq2AgHQtH-9T9jcVsVU/s1600-h/Products-Base-2%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="Products-Base-2" border="0" alt="Products-Base-2" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8zOm2t9b8gyRyMBJgSUWJiRoDVDr8KxGz8pf4DWBpusjPAcI6exukm1Zqo99YbscAQbpHkSLXzT56GU5j5hT4gm7KbyKmY80m6t37yKK6w35C0ZBvsxrZd23e1v7XJgcEsnK7BKSqMfCR/?imgmax=800" width="295" height="222" /></a> </p> <p>These are the technology enablers to build real software farms!</p> <p>More when I will have the time to delivery and reorganize our internal procedures of Milan Campus to leverages the new features!</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0bdf4b64-fc06-4e58-b887-3a3156419c43" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/VisualStudio+2010" rel="tag">VisualStudio 2010</a></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-51345534287448077792009-11-11T22:22:00.001+00:002009-11-11T22:22:54.896+00:00Sharepoint Conference 2009<p>I’m back from the <a href="http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx">Sharepoint Conference 2009</a> from a couple of weeks (it has been held on 19-22 October in Las Vegas) and I’m in a huge late in publishing some personal annotation from there.</p> <p>The keynote was driven by Tom Rizzo and Steve Ballmer</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE0_YfjeTaCisxlWM2Rv4K3zFsIRpxU-9KXrmoYEKVp1w3s7arx3tquujUd-eAHN84YRFnYHucyMW_IUQxWlT6lenKZR617jKbSArJWMw1DZbqTkzHE18o1rac_4Tsp-yjCu3EFVJPyaAH/s1600-h/DSCN0653%5B2%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="DSCN0653" border="0" alt="DSCN0653" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEJ0bhIBfcB_DhnzeBykpD1ISlknXAB2oEpVy-nVwYB-ZIpJZ9Jg67AoDFLVtsc4NfkTJf9tSoAfvG_Fh9H0LTgEYFkAvWsSOa-1YyNLweF3mPYPM-JpwgHHzRH0I7fUtpzEVUTdf7bT3/?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <p>The key messages were:</p> <ul> <li>Beta will be available November, the goal is to made the RTM available for the 2Q 2010;</li> <li>One thing is <strong>Sharepoint 2010 on premises</strong>, on thing is <strong>Sharepoint Online</strong> (business opportunities and different target for them);</li> <li><strong>Sharepoint Services</strong> is going to change is name to <strong>Sharepoint Foundation</strong> and it will not be longer part of Windows Server (it will be an independent downloadable package);</li> <li>Total integration between Development Environment (VS2010), BDC (now Business Connectivity Services) and Office 2010;</li> <li>Sharepoint now run on Windows 7/Vista to leverage the integration with VS2010 (this is real happiness for me and many of my customers);</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpmB50MUOL6pdoUrFR4Lq0-SOQ-2Nwxt37jp3OtzAUs3XxLPyuZgAunHa42fzvrFbGwoyPUiAD5RD-0xAKrFBbPxfICKNd9RftEOMFNBFlgFV1sUo67ZCZSqHTvnW9ZL3fr0cR7h7ViuK2/s1600-h/DSCN0657%5B2%5D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="DSCN0657" border="0" alt="DSCN0657" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyH6kBhPPmk7pTBY7y-Dcsanx8rNr3SNO9N909-vMjUJDP6rXi2DQ9pujfTtyI1sqjiR8r8-kQA2yNFMsKS5UpYm3TNQnynR6tVnmaG69B4Ibe4eiNea1X3yWicSAmCX_NIN6AAzFBs8f4/?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <ul> <li>Full Ajax support to reduce the front-end flickering;</li> <li>Full WEB 2.0 , social and and community features (document rating), the idea is to “recreate” the Facebook experience in Sharepoint for business purpose;</li> <li>The User Interface is totally based on Ribbons (like Office 2007);</li> <li>Full Streaming support for video, audio and pics (I guess that someone will run his own clone of youporn on SP2010!). This is to better support SilverLight development;</li> <li>I love BI and I was impressed by PowerPivot (it’s an in-memory database)</li> <ul> <li>I’ve seen filtering from Excel 2010 100 milions rows in less than 1 second! Simply incredible!!</li> <li>Performance Point now is part of Sharepoint (this is a huge news from a strategic perspective because in this way it should be easier to push it to the SMI market, where Perfomance Point alone wasn’t a justified as an investment);</li> </ul> <li>Groove is now fully integrated with Sharepoint providing offline support (but offline and syncing is also possible with Office 2010)</li> <li>Access, Visio, Word services and services architecture (yes Access, Visio and Word now work on server side)</li> <li>Full REST architecture to access the Sharepoint data (very exciting for me’cause I’m a REST fan)</li> <li>Huge improvement on Document Libraries performance. Now each folder could host one milion items.</li> <li>Workflow, seems to work on .Net 3.5, I don’t see big news maybe the management from Sharepoint Designer where the workflow now are reusable and can be export/imported with VS2010;</li> <li><strong>Shared Services</strong> have been reengineered and now they are called <strong>Application Services</strong> and are sharable between more server farms;</li> <li><strong>Sand-Boxed Application</strong>, developers can leverage a developer mode to sand-box the application guaranteeing the reliability of the farm. Very interesting but the development model still seems tricky and challenging.</li> </ul> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b8f8bf1d-b415-464b-9054-c8b74f80e467" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Sharepoint+2010" rel="tag">Sharepoint 2010</a></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-6453812114081981542009-11-11T21:41:00.001+00:002009-11-11T21:41:33.817+00:00London Technology Network – Intelligent Transport Conference<p><a href="http://www.tiq-industrial.co.uk/Speech%20%20Conferences/ITS%20-%20Industrial%20Vechicles%20Tracking.ppsx">Here</a> my presentation from the 01st July conference in London (I’m in huge late in blogging!).</p> <p>It has been just a 5 mins speech about the awesome TIQ projects :-D on industrial vehicles tracking.</p> <p>(Ok ok it’s always the same stuff).</p> <p>The important thing in this blog is the excellent job made by friend <a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/in/alessandrofaraci">Alessandro Faraci</a> the <a href="http://www.ltnetwork.org/">London Technology Network</a> business development manager and the  conference chairman. </p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:533f24e4-7248-4f68-9dc9-6cbace92edd8" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Tracking" rel="tag">Tracking</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Speech" rel="tag">Speech</a></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3810409044279049072.post-57105863500117116822009-11-03T10:38:00.001+00:002009-11-03T10:38:13.302+00:00TFS, Conchango and MOSS<p>I'm working with a customer deploying <strong>MOSS 2007</strong> and <strong>TFS 2008</strong> in the same server farm, sharing the DB between the 2 environments and also the MOSS portal with TFS.</p> <p>Indeed the topology is quite easy, with three servers:</p> <ul> <li>A SQL-Server 2005 with SSAS, SSIS;</li> <li>The TFS Application tier with SSRS; </li> <li>The MOSS FE (with the TFS WSS extension)</li> </ul> <p>Customer adopted a SCRUM methodology and would like to leverage the Conchango template, but I got in trouble because you've to manually setup Conchango on a dual server TFS topology, manually deploying a Sharepoint solution (Conchango).</p> <p>I was unable to deploy the Conchango templates and after having thought it was caused by my fault, I found the following error in Sharepoint logs:</p> <p>10/28/2009 10:59:38.94 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0B64) 0x0A78 Windows SharePoint Services Timer 5utx Unexpected The timer service could not initialize its configuration, please check the configuration database. Will retry later.</p> <p>This one, usually is due to a problem in <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/josrod/archive/2007/12/12/clear-the-sharepoint-configuration-cache-for-timer-job-and-psconfig-errors.aspx">Sharepoint configuration cache</a> that can be easily resolved forcing an update of the cache (take a look to the blog post).</p> <p>It didn't worked for me so I had to remove the server from the farm (easy in my scenario because it was just an 1 server farms) with:</p> <p>psconfig -cmd configdb disconnect </p> <p>The reinsert the server itself in the farm just with psconfigui.exe</p> <p>To deploy Conchango is mandatory to install Team Explorer both on Sharepoint FE and on the TFS AT.</p> <p> I don't like having team explorer on a MOSS FE, but in this case I need it because on the same server there is also Team System Web Access and explorer is a requirements also for it.</p> <p>To manually deploy Conchango on Sharepoint : stsadm -o Conchango.TeamSystem.Scrum.Sharepoint.wsp from the path C:\Program Files\Conchango\Scrum for Team System\SFTS WSS Template</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0